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[Rick]

My French teacher had an MGB and regularly gave me stick for having a Spitfire (in pieces), while our old music teacher had an XJ Coupe followed by a Shadow I. He used to get very very angry if a football ever bounced off either car's roof.

Another teacher in the same school occasionally turned up in a Mk2 Consul, while another drove around in a bright pink Cadillac, 1970s vintage.



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[andycars]

Headteacher - rose taupe Morris Thousand.
Daf 44 variomatic (lady teacher, can't remember subject - never taught me).
My French teacher grey/blue small triumph (1300/1500?)
My maths teacher - dark green Morris 1100/1300; it was getting on a bit and I'd just got my first car ('72 Avenger); enjoyed "talking cars" with him. Must have learnt a bit of maths as well - I teach it now .
Another maths teacher - brown late Avenger '77/'78?
Motor Vehicle teacher - white Rover P6 3500S.
Lecturer at college - Lotus Elan +2 and a Morgan.

I'm sure more will spring to mind

[Classic_Dave]

We had a teacher who inherited a DB4 from his Uncle, about late '60's.

We doing my ONC, we had a part time lecturer, He brought a new Morris Minor 1000 traveller which he discovered forgotten about at the local dealer. This was during the 72/73 year.

[Brian M]

In the 60's at Bromley Grammar School, my gym teacher had a 1963 ish Healey 3000 in metallic blue over white.
He refused to clean his number plates and so they were unreadable. His argument was that they were no use to him, he didn't want them on his car, so if the authorities wanted them they could clean them!

The music teacher had an immaculate Mark 9 Jaguar that he would polish and dust during his lunchbreak.

I now work in education and our college staff car park is the most boring place. More interesting cars belong to some of the students!
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[Riley Blue]

A teacher at my junior school in the '50s had a '49-ish Vauxhall Wyvern c/w plastic bug deflector on the bonnet.

At grammar school, the head master had a dark green Morris 1100. He wasn't very popular so to get even his car was advertised in the local paper at a knock-down price. I recall him announcing his displeasure in morning assembly at the number of phone calls he'd received - certain members of the Lower 5th were biting their lips to stop laughing, I probably still have the scars.

At a different school, a not very nice physics master had a Fiat 500 Giardiniera and used to drive it (hand on horn) to the dining block along a footpath, scattering boys left and right. At the end of the school year he had to buy the prefects a round of beer to get his wheels back.

Happy days...

[Micawber]

I remember putting my hand through a window (don't ask, I was somewhere where I shouldn't have been) and being taken to the hospital to get stitched up in the art master's Morris 100 van. It was raining hard, the wipers didn't work so he had put a loop of string which ran through the window from wiper to wiper, my job was to sit there pulling backward and forward on this bit of string and at the same time trying not to bleed too much.

I was dropped off at the casualty department and after he had briefed the staff he went back to school. I was left there for ages and then had my hand stitched up without anaesthetic. Lesson learned

[Keith D]

Back in the mid fifties, one master had an immaculate black Ford V8 Pilot. I loved that car and wondered how on earth a teacher could afford to buy one, let alone run it. Dad said he probably had independant means. It was years before I learned what this meant!

My physics master drove the oldest, scruffiest Hillman Minx I've ever seen; probably mid thirties. (Long before MOT tests) The senior mistress, who also took music lessons, drove a mid thirties Morris eight sedan that I used to have to wash for her when I gave her a bit too much cheek or refused to sing solo! (Her way of punishing boys who didn't enjoy singing lessons!)

I think all the other masters and mistresses rode bicycles! Cars were not so plentiful in the fifties!

Keith

[Richard H]

Most of my teachers at Barling Magna Primary School drove boring things like MK5 Escorts, Fiestas and Ford Galaxies. However, there were a few interesting ones. Mrs Riley drove a bright orange MG Midget, RPW 505R. She had to sell it a few years ago when it became too difficult to get in and out from. I still see it occasionally around the Westcliff area. Mrs Kendall had an A reg Renault 11, which was very long in the tooth and rare even then. Mrs Hutchinson had the ropiest B reg Escort I've ever seen. Mrs Tookey had one of the 'last of the line' Reliant Robins, she ordered it at the 1999 (Earls Court?) Motor Show and still has it, T870 KTW. Mrs Mitchell drove a ropey black F reg Metro that was always very reluctant to start. And an occasional PE teacher (who's name escapes me at the moment) drove a very tidy MK2 Consul! I remember he had part of an old microwave box stuffed behind the radiator grill to help keep the engine warm in the winter.

[peter scott]

The teachers' cars at my school mostly fell into the unmemorable category too:

I do remember a French teacher with an early 50s Velox, although much more interesting was the black 1960 Chevrolet Impala that was often parked next to it. (My school was located next to the American Consulate.)

Also more interesting than the teachers' cars, one of the 6th formers had a Bullnose Morris 4 seat tourer. Lovely old thing but unfortunately it burnt most of the paint off its bonnet on one school visit but it was quickly restored to running order if memory serves me right. Probably still lives on but I can't recall the number.

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[poodge]

The oldest I remember was my brothers teacher having a Renault Dauphine in the late 50's.
In the 60's,my teacher had an early ex-us army vw beetle,which he had repainted in turquoise.Another teacher had a Ford Popular.If you saw a pupil heading for the Pop,you knew he was sent to get the strap,which was kept in the car.When the boy got back to class,he'd be receiving his punishment.
In High school,I remember a 105E anglia,a 2CV,Fiat 850,and the headmaster had a Ford Corsair.
In the same vein,my first employer had a Volvo Amazon,which was totalled while he was on holiday in the south of holland.His next one was a 123 2-door in baby blue.One of our customers had a Vauxhall PA,which always had battery trouble.We frequently had to give her car a push!
My first job in NZ was at a bakery,where the foreman drove an immaculate LIP Velox.He replaced it with a series IIIA Humber 80,and then a Triumph 2000.
The under foreman had a LHD Rambler Rebel,probably the only one in nz.
The big boss had a Citroen DS21 Pallas,a very rare car at that time(early 70's).
The firm's vehicles were 3PB Commer vans,with the larger vehicles all Bedfords,from a KC to J2's.

[Ellis]

The more memorable teachers' cars that I recall from my school days are as follows :

Headmaster : Riley 4/68 registration number HEY 747
Sports Master: MG Magnette ZB in two tone grey
Music Master: Consul Capri, white, 73** UN
RE Master: Wolseley 15/60, two tone dark blue and grey, later a
Wolseley 1500, Yukon Grey and lastly a Ford Cortina
1600 delux, blue mink, reg no FJC 69F
Woodwork Master: Rover 2000TC, blue, reg no 1 ACA
English Master : Consul Mk 2, blue, reg no EFF 181 later replaced by
a nearly new Ford Corsair 2000E
Headmistress: Rover 3500S reg no YUN 1L
History Master: Morris Minor Traveller, reg no HCC ***

Physics Master : Consul Cortina, white, reg no AUN 591B
Art Mistress: Vauxhall Victor 101 estate later replaced by a new
Vauxhall Viva HA SL90 in light blue, 1966 D reg.
Not really a teacher's car but one sixth former had an Austin A30 in a beige colour, reg no BCC 303.

The majority of the other teacher's vehicles were Minis, Austin 1100/1300, Ford Anglia, Hillman Minx, Vauxhall Victor and of course Morris Minors .

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[exbmc]

I am impressed that some can remember so many of their teacher's cars!!
It is a long time since I was at school, and apart from two, I have no recollections at all. When in junior school, one of the teachers, (Mr Craig) used to come all the way from Wirksworth. (20 miles was a long way away to a 9 year old). His car was a grey Hillman Minx, early 50's probably. In the winter, and it always snowed then, he had snow chains on.
The other I recall, was a teacher at secondary school "Ding-dong" Bell, who had a Isetta bubble car. On a family holiday to Devon, we saw him coming, flat out, up the hill out of Woolacombe.

[Mog]

My Scottish woodwork teacher , Mac. , had a Renault Dauphine. I could never work out how he fitted 4 or was it 5 kids and wife into the car. He was a good guy but chain smoker. He more or less said that if I did not pass the GEC o-level wood work , he would be out of a job. I think I saved his bacon !

[Bengt Axel]

At my High School (late 70's / early 80's) in addition to the usual grot boxes I was in awe of my woodwork teachers bright red TVR 1600M (well, it was the 70s!), and we all though that the art mistress impossibly glamourous on account of her mustard yellow TR6.

Oh, and the humungously fat biology taecher and his almost equally corpulant dinner-lady wife in their Mini was a sight that will ever stay with me.

[Daniel H]

Nothing really interesting to report here sadly Although the caretaker at my Primary school had and still has a green 1960 Wolseley 1500 Mk2 as his daily driver! Bought it from Luton shortly after it was plate-raped, so wears the registration ESJ 759. Someone at the Sixth form campus opposite had two 2-door Moggies, the first being an incredibly tatty Trafalgar blue example which I remember many pupils pointing and laughing at and was eventually replaced by a tidy light blue one. There was also another ropey Trafalgar blue one but a 4-door that appeared in my secondary school car park for a bit, dunno if it was owned by a teacher or student though.